Rachel

Rachel in Scripture

Open a book to read its mentions here. Text: Berean Standard Bible. Names repeat in Scripture, so some of these verses may speak of another person called Rachel.

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Old Testament4 books · 46 mentions

Genesis43 mentions

Genesis 29:6“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
Genesis 29:9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Genesis 29:10As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
Genesis 29:11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
Genesis 29:12He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

38 further mentions in Genesis, read them in the book.

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Ruth1 mention

Ruth 4:11“We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

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1 Samuel1 mention

1 Samuel 10:2When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’

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Jeremiah1 mention

Jeremiah 31:15This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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New Testament1 book · 1 mention

Matthew1 mention

Matthew 2:18“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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Nave's Topical Bible on Rachel

Orville J. Nave gathered 14 passages under this heading in 1896. His outline and his opening passages stand here; the full heading is one click on.

-(Daughter of Laban and the favorite wife of Jacob) -Meets Jacob at a well GEN 29:9-12 -Jacob serves Laban for an additional seven years to obtain her as his wife GEN 29:15-30 -Sterility of GEN 29:31 -Her grief in consequence of her sterility; gives her maid, to Jacob in order to obtain children in her own name GEN 30:1-8,15,22-34 -Later productiveness of; becomes the mother of -Joseph GEN 30:22-25 -Benjamin GEN 35:16-18,24 -Steals the household images (teraphim, legal deed) of her father GEN 31:4,14-19,33-35 -Her death and burial GEN 35:18-20; 48:7; 1SA 10:2

All 14 passages Nave lists here →Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), public domain.

Named alongside

Other people MannaFest has a page for whose name the text uses in Genesis 29, Genesis 30, Genesis 31, Genesis 33, Genesis 35, Genesis 46, Genesis 48 and Ruth 4 (the chapters where this name lands most often). Each card shows the verse it came from. Scripture reuses names freely, so a page behind a name here may belong to another person who shares it.

JacobThe heel-grasping supplanter reshaped at Peniel into 'Israel, he who strives with God' — father of the twelve tribes.Genesis 29:1Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

LeahJacob's unloved first wife, on whom the LORD's eye fell — the mother of Judah, the messianic tribe, and of Levi, the pr…Genesis 29:16Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.

JosephThe rejected-then-exalted son — Genesis's great Christ-type; preserver of his family and of Egypt; the bridge into Exod…Genesis 30:24She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”

EsauIsaac's elder son who despised his birthright (Heb 12:16); father of Edom, Israel's perennial neighbor and adversary.Genesis 33:1Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.

IsaacThe son of promise and of laughter — bound on Moriah, the quiet inheritor of the covenant.Genesis 31:18and he drove all his livestock before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

BoazThe mighty man of wealth in Bethlehem who spread his skirt over Ruth as kinsman-redeemer (goel), bought the inheritance…Ruth 4:1Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

ManassehJudah's longest-reigning and worst king, who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; the book names his apostasy as the c…Genesis 46:20Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

AbrahamCalled out of Ur, the father of all who believe, justified by faith, and the friend of God through whose seed all natio…Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”